An ally need not own the land he helps.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.